Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 21:11:49 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: j mckitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbussifying drivers Message-ID: <200106080311.f583BnV16330@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Jun 2001 04:02:11 BST." <20010608040211.A61278@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010608040211.A61278@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106070240550.26121-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106071238040.18103-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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In message <20010608040211.A61278@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> j mckitrick writes: : Okay, there is something i'm not understanding here. In the ed driver, : there are many possible cards, which each have different i/o ports, correct? Not really. The ed driver is the most twisted driver in the tree when it comes to probe. : The driver has a lot of probe routines, and it looks like they are just : using different macros with hard-coded (#defined) port addresses. Usually no. There are many different ways to hook up the hardware and each ISA card vendor chose differently before ne2000 became standard. : So, how do you CORRECTLY use the newbus calls to probe these ports? I am : not running -current, so i do not have 'hints'. hints are in -stable, they just live in the kernel config file there. I'm not sure what the best thing to do is. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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